I know what your saying Josch but I have already done many swaps before with Civic and JDM engines. All engines can be swapped pretty much with extra motor mounts if the cars have the same chassis(like swapping engines from 2 contours) and I think it wouldn't be too hard... I think if I get the man. trans. engine then I would just have to do some interior mods like the clutch pedal, shiftknob, and things like that
I realize all of this. But you speak as if your time isn't worth very much. If you get 20-40 hours tied up in doing this, then is that really worth it, since you can go buy an SE V-6 MTX car for $3500? I've done all that swap $hit before too, but I've realized that it just isn't worth doing it on a cheap car. Yeah, maybe if you bought a $20,000 Audi A6, and swap a few things to upgrade it to the $30,000 A6, then that MIGHT be worth it. But we're talking about a car here that doesn't even hold it's value. In a few more years, these older Contours aren't going to even be worth pennies. Now if your wanting to do it just for the challenge of it, or for hobby sake, or your just bored during the summer between classes, then go for it. You know it's possible. But worth it? I don't know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I just don't have time for those kinds of projects. My time is worth $22 bucks an hour (flat rate mechanic), so it's cheaper for me to go to work, and work a little harder, make the extra money to trade the old car in, and buy the exact one that had all the options I had wanted, and then spend my extra time to soup it up from there (if I wanted).
